Accelerated healing of pyoderma gangrenosum in Behçet patient treated with cyclosporine and split thickness skin graft.
Pyoderma gangrenosum is a dermatologic manifestation of systemic disease such as inflammatory bowel disease, monoclonal gammopathy, arthritis, malignancies, and Behçet's disease. Pyoderma gangrenosum can be stabilized with oral cyclosporine administration. After stabilization, it can be managed with debridement and skin graft.
Kim
Deok-Woo
DW
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Korea University Anam Hospital, Sungbuk-Gu, Seoul, Korea.
Lee
Byung-Il
BI
Park
Seung-Ha
SH
D000935:Antifungal Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D001528:Behcet Syndrome / Q000150:complications* / Q000188:drug therapy*; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D016572:Cyclosporine / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D003646:Debridement; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D017511:Pyoderma Gangrenosum / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000601:surgery; D016038:Skin Transplantation; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D014945:Wound Healing
D000935:Antifungal Agents; D016572:Cyclosporine